As one of the most famous philosophers of the twentieth century, Heidegger has proposed significant ideas about ontology. The undercurrent of his philosophy is the question of being in the world or Dasein. He believes that human is the only creature for whom being in the world is a question and only human is capable of asking about Dasein. Heidegger thinks that authentic poets with their partic...

Stigma is considered to be a social process that gives a mark or attribute to individuals and is characterised by exclusion, rejection, blame or devaluation. Goffman defined stigma as an “attribute that is deeply discrediting and that reduces the bearer from a whole and usual person to a tainted, discounted one”. 1 Considering the literature, it can be clearly seen that patient groups with AIDS...

As a feature of many chronic health problems, stigma contributes to a hidden burden of illness. Health-related stigma is typically characterized by social disqualification of individuals and populations who are identified with particular health problems. Another aspect is characterized by social disqualification targeting other features of a person's identity-such as ethnicity, sexual preferenc...

JianGang Wang,* YaLi Wang,* FangLi Guo, ZhiBo Feng, XiangFang Wang, and ChengBiao Lu Henan Province Key Laboratory of Brain Research, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, Henan, Peoples Republic of China; Department of Pathophysiology, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, Henan, Peoples Republic of China; Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, Hena...

Under what conditions can information and communications technologies (ICTs) enhance the well-being of poor communities? The paper designs an alternative evaluation framework (AEF) that applies Sen‘s capability approach to the study of ICTs in order to place people‘s well-being, rather than technology at the center of the study. The AEF develops an impact chain that examines the mechanisms by w...

The health and social conditions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples in Canada remain important policy concerns. The life course has been proposed by some as a framework for analysis that could assist in the development of policies that would improve the economic and social inclusion of Aboriginal peoples. In this paper we support the goal of applying a life-course perspective to policie...

Summary: Indigenous people across the world experience more health related problems as compared to the population at large. So, this review article is broadly an attempt to highlight the important factors for indigenous peoples’ health problems, and to recommend some suggestions to improve their health status. Standard database for instance, Pubmed, Medline, Google scholar, and Google book sear...

This paper proposes a new speech synthesis method for high-quality Japanese TTS(Text-to-speech) based on the waveform synthesis. The method uses V-CV as a basic synthesis unit to preserve the intelligibility of consonant. An efficient unit reconstruction method is newly adopted both to minimize pitch conversion and concatenation distortion when selecting waveforms. The minimization can provide ...

Using Ephestia kuehniella larvae as hosts, invert emulsion (IE) and an aqueous suspension (AS) of Beauveria bassiana (isolate IR34-JS2) and Metarhizium anisopliae (isolate IR41-TT1) formulations were compared when stored for three months at either 3 °C or 25 °C. Initially, IE formulations of isolates JS2 and TT1 were 13- and 14-fold more virulent than AS formulations, based on their LC50 values...